Real existence, ideal necessity
Subtitle: Kant's compromise, and the modalities without the compromise
By: Robert Greenberg.
Series: Kantstudien. Ergänzungshefte -- 157; Kantstudien -- 157.
Publisher: Berlin; Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9783110206906
Subjects: Kant, Immanuel, -- 1724-1804; Modality (Logic); Modality (Logic) -- History -- 18th century; Knowledge, Theory of -- History; Nonclassical mathematical logic
Description: "Analytic philosophy has leveled many challenges to Kant's ascription of necessary properties and relations to objects in his Critique of Pure Reason. Some of these challenges can be answered, it is argued here, largely in terms of techniques belonging to analytic philosophy itself, in particular, to its philosophy of language. This Kantian response is the primary objective of this book. It takes the form of a compromise between the real existence of the objects that we can intuit and that get our knowledge started - dubbed initiators - and the ideality of the necessary properties and relations that Kant ascribes to our sensible representations of initiators, which he entitles appearances. Whereas the real existence of initiators is independent of us and our senses, the necessity of these properties and relations of appearances is due to their origins in the mind."--book jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-201) and index.